The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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